Have you guys heard? Bill Burr is cancelled. He called white women “bitches” on SNL so it’s over for him. I really, REALLY can’t wait to hear him double down on the Monday Morning Podcast over it. It’s times like this the world needs Patrice back more than ever.
I'm just surprised people are still listening to anything Adam Carolla puts out. And I say that as someone who used to listen daily.
His stuff is still good. Skyped in guest sucks but that’s pretty across the board in entertainment. Dr Drew is still an internal medicine specialist, you get him on the subject he knows what he’s talking about. Which is why his podcast are alright. His HLN pop medicine sound bites are useless.
Same here... it hit a "nothing new to say" point and I just stopped listening, and stopped missing him telling me how he knows all because he's rich and we know nothing because we're not.
I struggle with podcasts in general, because it seems like there's a ton of content out there that's mediocre, and you have to sift through it to find anything relevant or worth hearing. I like Rogan when he has authors on, but the political shit turns me off. Hearing him talk to Nasa engineers, athletes or even some of the military or LEO guys that would otherwise never be known in the mainstream media is great. Hearing him talk to someone who wrote a book about trans people is excruciating. Hearing him talk to other comedians is just repetitive. It also feels weirdly sad, like I am listening to two people have a friendly conversation, instead of having interesting friends myself to talk to. On drives, I used to do podcasts, but realized i was better off with audiobooks or music. Still would love some middle ground, like an audio lecture system, where I can learn shit but not a full book. Some HBR episodes were like that, but....more just describing what made something work instead of teaching the listener how to do it. And the issue is there is just so much out there content wise, with a huge disparity in quality.
Ah, the Howard Stern philosophical model. Putting a microphone in front of people does that more than ever.
I've feel like some of the series podcasts are a pretty good middle-ground if you can find a topic that's interesting. I've listened to a few true crime podcasts about Aaron Hernandez, Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos, I've picked at some of the episodes from the American Scandal podcast. Really enjoyed Serial and S-Town. For non-series stuff, I like This American Life, I've listened to a bunch of 99% Invisible. They're not quite lectures, but the straight-up guest interview podcasts are really hard to pick through to find the gems and I usually avoid them. Even the good episodes don't necessarily imply a good series.
I can’t do podcasts, they bore me. A friend was raving about “The Jefferson Hour” and while it was interesting, I couldn’t do a full hour of it. After about 20 minutes I tapped out. Maybe it’s just that my attention span has gotten shorter, but I think 20-30 minutes for a podcast should be the norm, not an hour plus.
The dude thought he could run his podcast around his wit and have the guests as a secondary/background feature. That worked with Love Line because he had new material to riff on in real-time as morons called in. That didn’t work in podcast format. So he ironically turned it into a radio show and now it’s just rotating stories of his shitty friends, hating his parents and berating of his staff, which got old very quick. Rogan is much better, but I feel like for every one interesting person he has on, he has two Joey Diaz’s as a return to his comfort zone. And he gets really weird and aggressive if someone comes on who is legitimately funny but is not someone in his friend circle. Case-in-point, Macaulay Culkin. But he also just made $100 million, so what the hell do I know?
I don’t mind Diaz, because he’s a consistently funny storyteller. It’s these mouth-breathing mongoloid fringe comedians like Redban, Tony Hinchcliff or that filthy scumbag Ari— nothing they say is interesting or funny. They are Rogan’s friends, and they’re on because he likes him. Apparently he doesn’t get the message nobody else likes them.
Speaking of podcasts and Ryan Holliday: I’ve been listening to the Stuff You Should Know podcast for about 10 years. Entertaining, informative, with a different topic each podcast and two hosts with good chemistry who seem like genuinely good guys. They’re releasing a book this fall, and the coauthor is Nils Parker. You may have known him as Tucker Max’s buddy and moderator Drunkosaurus Rex from the RMMB and TMMB. Small world.
Wasn’t Nils the co-writer of the movie screenplay? AKA the guy who didn’t immediately see that a rant about the McGriddle didn’t have any type of comical value outside of a message board?
He’s also listed as the coauthor of some of Tucker’s books. I’m not sure how impressive that is, but the dude works for Macmillan publishers and Stuff You Should Know is the real deal, so he’s doing okay.
I used to listen to a lot of podcasts. My commute to work and back used to be 1.5 hrs a day on the bus, and reading in a moving vehicle makes me car sick. It left a lot of passive time to fill. I'm also the kind of old (late 30's FYI) where very little music created in the last 15 years interests me. I have about 60 gigs worth of music that I've been rotating through my phone since my first smart phone, and as much as I like it, it does get repetitive and I need a break. Rogan is my favorite, he gets the most diverse and interesting guests. Totally agree, and I'd also add Bryan Callen to the list of third rate comedians I'll listen too. He's not the least bit funny, but interesting to listen to. Smart and well spoken. I liked old school the Nerdist too. I think that one was a victim of it's own success. He also got a lot of diverse and interesting guests until it got too popular. Then it just became an ad for whoever had a movie coming out they wanted to promote. That one's not around anymore, but he still does a different podcast I think. I tried listening to Christopher Ryan for a bit, he had some interesting people on, but I find him so boring I couldn't focus. I gave Jocko Willink a shot too, and he's awesome in small doses. For me he works best as a guest on someone else's show, but his own 3 hr shows are a bit on the intense side. Now that I work from home I only listen to anything on the dog walk, so 45 min a day. Between music and some true crime stuff I pretty much just listen to Rogan.
Burr’s is my favourite podcast, because it’s (usually) just him pissing out of his ass for 30-90 minutes, and it’s almost always funny. Lots of sports complaining but he also trashes his own sponsors every week which is funny.
Hardcore History is still the best podcast out there. I’ve also been getting into the Crime Junkie podcast. The women that host it are really good at telling each story.